Bad Advertisement?
Are you a Christian?
Online Store:Visit Our Store
| Chapter XI
PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP 
Chapter XI.
He says, in addition, that “all the
Christians were of one mind,” not observing, even in this
particular, that from the beginning there were differences of opinion
among believers regarding the meaning3467
of
the books held to be divine. At all events, while the apostles
were still preaching, and while eye-witnesses of (the works of)
Jesus were still teaching His
doctrine, there was no small discussion among the converts from Judaism
regarding Gentile believers, on the point whether they ought to observe
Jewish customs, or should reject the burden of clean and unclean meats,
as not being obligatory on those who had abandoned their ancestral
Gentile customs, and had become believers in Jesus. Nay, even in
the Epistles of Paul, who was contemporary with those who had seen
Jesus, certain particulars are found mentioned as having been the
subject of dispute,—viz., respecting the resurrection,3468
and whether it were already past, and the
day of the Lord, whether it were nigh at hand3469
or
not. Nay, the very exhortation to “avoid profane and vain
babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which
some professing, have erred concerning the faith,”3470
is enough to show that from the very
beginning, when, as Celsus imagines, believers were few in number,
there were certain doctrines interpreted in different ways.3471
| 3471 Τινὲς
παρεκδοχαί.
[He admits the fact, but does not justify such oppositions.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
|
